ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,272, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advanced Distributor Products LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"HVAC system and methods of using the same for leak detection" was invented by John Lawson Bauer Jr. (Grenada, Miss.), Austin Mitchell Meminger (Oxford, Miss.) and Timothy James Orr (Bogart, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a HVAC system is provided. The method includes removing heat from a working fluid using an evaporator and a blower that moves airflow across the evaporator. The method includes measuring at least one gas property value of a fluid surrounding the evaporator using a leak detection sensor. The method ...